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Beautiful Dreamers

(1990)

June 5, 1990 1h 45m
50%
TMDB Score

Overview

When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is radically changed. Like Dr. Bucke, Whitman has avant-garde ideas on the subject of mental illness. "Dreamers" is based on true events. Dr. Bucke became an important biographer of Walt Whitman.

John Kent Harrison

Director

Top Billed Cast

CF

Colm Feore

Dr. Maurice Bucke

RT

Rip Torn

Walt Whitman

WM

Wendel Meldrum

Jessie Bucke

SM

Sheila McCarthy

Molly Jessop

CF

Colin Fox

Rev. Haines

DG

David Gardner

Dr. Lett

TM

Tom McCamus

Leonard Thomas

AS

Albert Schultz

Dr. John Burgys

JWC

J. Winston Carroll

Henderson

BG

Barbara Gordon

Agatha Haines